CHINA: Nationalist Notes

¶ The famed port-city of Tientsin, from which
Peking is reached, was surrounded on three sides, last week by Nanking
Nationalist Armies and then quietly occupied.

¶.Of Tientsin's former militarist masters the last to evacuate was
blunt, bearish Marshal Chang* Tsung-chang, notorious during the present
Civil War for his ruthless cruelty (TIME, March 7, 1927). As Chang's
armored train pulled out for Manchuria, he growled to correspondents:
"I won't answer questions! How should I know how many men I've got
left, or how much money I've got left, or how many wives I've got
left?"